List folds generalized to Traversable
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Informally, we can think of foldl
as a special case of traverse
where we do not care about the
reconstructed data structure and, in a state monad, we care about the final state.
The obvious way to define foldl
would be to use the state monad but it
is nicer to reason about a more abstract interface with foldMap
as a
primitive and foldMap_hom
as a defining property.
def foldMap {α ω} [One ω] [Mul ω] (f : α → ω) : t α → ω := ...
lemma foldMap_hom (α β) [Monoid α] [Monoid β] (f : α →* β) (g : γ → α) (x : t γ) :
f (foldMap g x) = foldMap (f ∘ g) x :=
...
foldMap
uses a monoid ω to accumulate a value for every element of
a data structure and foldMap_hom
uses a monoid homomorphism to
substitute the monoid used by foldMap
. The two are sufficient to
define foldl
, foldr
and toList
. toList
permits the
formulation of specifications in terms of operations on lists.
Each fold function can be defined using a specialized
monoid. toList
uses a free monoid represented as a list with
concatenation while foldl
uses endofunctions together with function
composition.
The definition through monoids uses traverse
together with the
applicative functor const m
(where m
is the monoid). As an
implementation, const
guarantees that no resource is spent on
reconstructing the structure during traversal.
A special class could be defined for foldable
, similarly to Haskell,
but the author cannot think of instances of foldable
that are not also
Traversable
.
For a list, foldl f x [y₀,y₁] reduces as follows:
calc foldl f x [y₀,y₁]
= foldl f (f x y₀) [y₁] : rfl
... = foldl f (f (f x y₀) y₁) [] : rfl
... = f (f x y₀) y₁ : rfl
with
f : α → β → α
x : α
[y₀,y₁] : List β
We can view the above as a composition of functions:
... = f (f x y₀) y₁ : rfl
... = flip f y₁ (flip f y₀ x) : rfl
... = (flip f y₁ ∘ flip f y₀) x : rfl
We can use traverse and const to construct this composition:
calc const.run (traverse (λ y, const.mk' (flip f y)) [y₀,y₁]) x
= const.run ((::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₀) <*> traverse (λ y, const.mk' (flip f y)) [y₁]) x
... = const.run ((::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₀) <*>
( (::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₁) <*> traverse (λ y, const.mk' (flip f y)) [] )) x
... = const.run ((::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₀) <*>
( (::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₁) <*> pure [] )) x
... = const.run ( ((::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₁) <*> pure []) ∘
((::) <$> const.mk' (flip f y₀)) ) x
... = const.run ( const.mk' (flip f y₁) ∘ const.mk' (flip f y₀) ) x
... = const.run ( flip f y₁ ∘ flip f y₀ ) x
... = f (f x y₀) y₁
And this is how const
turns a monoid into an applicative functor and
how the monoid of endofunctions define Foldl
.
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- Monoid.Foldr.mk f = f
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- Monoid.Foldr.get x = x
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- Monoid.foldrM.mk f = f
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- Monoid.foldrM.get x = x
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- Traversable.foldMap f = traverse (Functor.Const.mk' ∘ f)
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- Traversable.foldl f x xs = Monoid.Foldl.get (Traversable.foldMap (Monoid.Foldl.mk ∘ flip f) xs) x
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- Traversable.foldr f x xs = Monoid.Foldr.get (Traversable.foldMap (Monoid.Foldr.mk ∘ f) xs) x
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Conceptually, toList
collects all the elements of a collection
in a list. This idea is formalized by
lemma toList_spec (x : t α) : toList x = foldMap FreeMonoid.mk x
.
The definition of toList
is based on foldl
and List.cons
for
speed. It is faster than using foldMap FreeMonoid.mk
because, by
using foldl
and List.cons
, each insertion is done in constant
time. As a consequence, toList
performs in linear.
On the other hand, foldMap FreeMonoid.mk
creates a singleton list
around each element and concatenates all the resulting lists. In
xs ++ ys
, concatenation takes a time proportional to length xs
. Since
the order in which concatenation is evaluated is unspecified, nothing
prevents each element of the traversable to be appended at the end
xs ++ [x]
which would yield a O(n²)
run time.
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- Traversable.toList = List.reverse ∘ Traversable.foldl (flip List.cons) []
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- Traversable.length xs = (Traversable.foldl (fun (l : ULift.{u, 0} ℕ) (x : α) => { down := l.down + 1 }) { down := 0 } xs).down
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- Traversable.foldlm f x xs = Monoid.foldlM.get (Traversable.foldMap (Monoid.foldlM.mk ∘ flip f) xs) x
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- Traversable.foldrm f x xs = Monoid.foldrM.get (Traversable.foldMap (Monoid.foldrM.mk ∘ f) xs) x